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<h1>Tasks Window</h1>
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<p>The Tasks window provides an organized overview of tasks that are recorded in a task repository. 
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<p>The Tasks window contains the following elements:</p>

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<p>Filter</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r2c1-t78 r1c2-t78">Type a string in the text field to filter the list of tasks to tasks that contain the string.</td>
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<p>Categories</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t78 r1c2-t78">Tasks are grouped by category in this section. You can create custom categories for your tasks. By default this section contains categories for scheduled tasks and recently opened tasks. 
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Schedule</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r4c1-t78 r1c2-t78">Categories for tasks that have a scheduled completion date are created by default. The default categories are Today, This Week and All.</td>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Recently Opened</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r5c1-t78 r1c2-t78">Default category that groups all recently opened tasks.</td>
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<p>Repositories</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r6c1-t78 r1c2-t78">Local and remote repositories are grouped in this section. You can add remote task repositories in this section or in the Services window. 
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Local Tasks</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r7c1-t78 r1c2-t78">Default task repository that you can use to store tasks locally. No external task repository is required.</td>
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<p>The following icons are used in the Tasks window:</p>

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<p><img width="16" height="16" src="img/sortalpha.png" alt="Set Tasks Window Sorting icon" title="Set Tasks Window Sorting icon" /></p></td>
<td align="left" headers="r2c1-t79 r1c2-t79">Modify sorting order for tasks</td>
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<p><img width="18" height="16" src="img/filter.png" alt="Set Filter icon" title="Set Filter icon" /></p></td>
<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t79 r1c2-t79">Modify filter of displayed tasks</td>
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<p><img width="16" height="16" src="img/add_category.png" alt="Create Category icon" title="Create Category icon" /></p></td>
<td align="left" headers="r4c1-t79 r1c2-t79">Create category for grouping tasks</td>
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<p><img width="16" height="16" src="img/clear.png" alt="Remove finished tasks icon" title="Remove finished tasks icon" /></p></td>
<td align="left" headers="r5c1-t79 r1c2-t79">Remove all finished tasks from categories</td>
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<td align="left" headers="r6c1-t79 r1c2-t79">Refresh</td>
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<td align="left" headers="r7c1-t79 r1c2-t79">Add repository</td>
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<td align="left" headers="r9c1-t79 r1c2-t79">Create a new task</td>
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<p><img width="16" height="16" src="img/search_repo.png" alt="Search task repository icon" title="Search task repository icon" /></p></td>
<td align="left" headers="r11c1-t79 r1c2-t79">Search for a task in the repository</td>
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